> While they light up and synchronize with your existing RGB ecosystem,
RAM has lights ?
wow I've been living in a cave
RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
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Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#52Are we back to the days of RDRAM when having a blank memory module was actually required?
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#53I miss the days when most people had a vanilla looking computer. You wouldn't have felt out of place at the LAN party lugging in your dad's old Packard Bell tower that you used for your gaming rig.
We still appreciated visually stunning PCs. Not just for the works of art that they were, but also for the DIY skill and ethic you were actually required to demonstrate to build and mod them.
Nowadays, it's all just "RGB by default". By my angry old man standards, it looks gauche. Then again, I suppose it's the new vanilla?
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#54Can't wait for people to buy two of these sets, take the real RAM sticks and refund the two fake ones in one package. There's no way the seller is going to manually check every returned stick.
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meanwhile I moved platform from AM4 at exactly the wrong moment, and downgraded RAM (temporarily, I hope) from 192GB to 96GB and feel like I'm missing half my workspace when I need it.
96bb is like 1% of population. this is not normal. optimize your stack mate.
> 96bb is like 1% of population. this is not normal. optimize your stack mate.
Of course it isn't normal, that's why I made my comment, to highlight the contrast. And no, my stack is optimized, you have no idea what I'm doing, yet somehow feel confident enough to know what my stack should/shouldn't look like? Man, the hubris of some people...
Next you'd probably tell me my Threadripper 9970X and RTX PRO 6000 is overkill, based on some other unrelated metrics.
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#56This is the "Trumpification" of gaming PCs, thanks in part to the trade war.
This time, it has more to do with diminished supply combined with heavy demand rather than a trade war.
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#57Can't wait for people to buy two of these sets, take the real RAM sticks and refund the two fake ones in one package. There's no way the seller is going to manually check every returned stick.
Quickest way for this idea to die a horrible death.
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#58I don't get it. Isn't 2x8gb faster than 1x16gb since it will run in dual channel? And shouldn't smaller capacity sticks be cheaper since they can use lower density chips?
Yes but if you want to upgrade later buying another 1x16gb is cheaper than buying 2x16gb and throwing out your 2x8gb (although it's a bit contrived since most motherboards have 4 slots).
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#59Slight tangent, I found this chart for the prices of RAM:
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet.
Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM", and most of them are garbage for LLMs but still useful for other things, like microcontrollers. So I'm thinking my next "build" is going to be a guitar.
Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
#60There is no reason for this to exist except to trick people.